Global Cosmetic Industry

TikTok has cemented its role as a discovery channel, and its influence on Amazon search rankings means that virality on one platform now directly monetizes on another.

Beauty’s Digital Reordering: TikTok Shop Surges as Amazon Holds, But No Longer Dominates Growth

With the launch of Beauty Crush Skincare, Karen Behnke appears to be betting that beauty consumers want something more than clean—they want clinically driven regenerative biotechnology.

From 'Juice In, Junk Out' to Exosomes: Karen Behnke's Beauty Crush Signals Clean Beauty's Next Chapter

If Juice Beauty helped establish clean beauty's first era, Beauty Crush offers a glimpse of what the category's next chapter may look like.

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The Pasadena store includes dedicated skin care testing zones, water-basin cleansing stations, skin scanning technology, scalp analysis services, and “The Beauty Lab,' where shoppers can receive personalized skin care lessons based on diagnostic insights.

Olive Young Plants Its Flag in the US as K-Beauty’s Retail Expansion Accelerates

ELC will refocus on its ongoing initiatives following the end of talks with Puig.

What Happened with Estée Lauder-Puig?

L'Oréal Luxe is extending fragrance beyond traditional product formats through a new partnership with DataLand, the AI-driven cultural institution co-founded by Refik Anadol (pictured) and Efsun Erkılıç.

L’Oréal Luxe Brings Responsive Scent Technology to AI Art Institution DataLand

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MOON: mascara in glass by Lumson and Ponzini

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Intensilk: Dermohacking Cellulite Through Circular Bio-Energy

The announcement coincides with the 60th anniversary of Estée Lauder’s Whitman manufacturing facility in the United Kingdom, which produces more than 90 million skin care and fragrance units annually.

Estée Lauder Deepens UK Manufacturing Footprint with Home Fragrance Expansion

The U.K. will become the primary manufacturing base for candles sold under brands including Jo Malone London, Tom Ford and Aerin worldwide.

AI-Inspired Beauty: Accelerating Innovation Through Intelligence

AI-Inspired Beauty: Accelerating Innovation Through Intelligence

Discover how AI is transforming cosmetic innovation. Grant Industries’ AI-Inspired Beauty Formulary explores data-driven formulation strategies, advanced ingredient technologies, and new pathways to accelerate product development.

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Beyond Wrinkles: The Ingredients Rewriting Beauty’s Biological Playbook

The industry is moving toward a model where skin care is designed to modulate the skin’s internal intelligence, adaptability and long-term biological trajectory.

Viva’s Platinum Series, which uses advanced vacuum metallization to create mirror-like metallic finishes on jars, closures, sticks, lip gloss bottles and other packaging components.

Viva Brings Luxury Looks to Sustainable Packaging With New Decoration Technologies

OliX is currently developing RNAi candidates for hair loss, hypertrophic scars, metabolic disorders and other conditions, leveraging its proprietary OASIS delivery platform.

L'Oréal Backs RNAi Drug Developer in $80M Bet on the Future Convergence of Beauty and Health

The funding will support OliX's pipeline across multiple therapeutic categories, including projects focused on skin and hair applications.

With 35% PCR content already incorporated into the structure, Mondi positions the solution as a future-ready option for compliance and circularity goals.

Mondi Unveils Recyclable Wet Wipes Pack With 35% PCR Content Ahead of EU Packaging Rules

With 35% PCR content already incorporated into the structure, Mondi positions the solution as a future-ready option for compliance and circularity goals.

Waldencast founders Michel Brousset and Hind Sebti will depart the company to lead Obagi alongside Bridgepoint, effectively taking one of Waldencast's most successful assets into its next phase of growth.

Waldencast Agrees to Sell Obagi Medical for up to $460M

For Bridgepoint, the acquisition is a bet on the continued convergence of dermatology, aesthetics and professional skin care.

Moving cosmetic formulation, product development and packaging workflows onto AI-driven platforms can potentially offer advantages in speed, efficiency and decision-making.

The AI Gold Rush in Beauty R&D

Competing platforms vie to demonstrate their value in achieving speed, savings and efficiencies, and market triumph.

For founders, formulators and executives navigating today’s heightened enforcement and litigation environment, understanding where science, coverage and perception collide has never been more critical.

When Ingredients Become Evidence: Inside Beauty’s Product Liability Crisis

Unpacking the real product liability threats confronting cosmetics companies, the insurance policy traps that can quietly leave brands exposed and the practical steps that can help mitigate future risk.

Unilever’s New Haven announcement reads as both a long-term innovation play and a clear strategic signal: the company wants to be viewed increasingly as a science-led beauty and well-being company rather than a traditional packaged foods conglomerate.

Unilever Bets Big on Beauty Science With $270M Innovation Hub as Food Divestiture Questions Swirl

Unilever said proximity to academic institutions and scientific talent was central to the decision.

Baralan advances usability-driven design with a push-button applicator system that extends product reach to minimize waste, improve evacuation rates and enhance end-of-life efficiency across makeup categories.

Packaging Look Book: Where Structural Design, Smart Dispensing and Circular Engineering Converge

Rethinking packaging as a multi-sensory, engineered brand system where form, materiality and user experience are inseparable.